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The U.S. has fallen behind in the race to clinch new market-opening agreements.

There is never an opportune moment to deal with foreign dissidents.

Senate Republicans will block Democrats from taking up a White House-backed bill to cap rates on some student loans unless Democrats allow a vote on a GOP alternative, the second-ranking Senate Republican said Monday.

Chris Kjorness on how Sears, Roebuck & Co. midwifed the birth of the blues.

Some scholars argue that top rates can be raised drastically with no loss of revenue. Their arguments are flawed.

Sovereign over-indebtedness and banking solvency are serious problems for Europe, but the common currency is doing its job just fine.

When the chips are down, expect France to keep its commitment to Germanic discipline.

Potty humor just got prehistoric. A new study suggests that dinosaurs may have helped keep an already overheated world warmer with their flatulence and burps 200 million years ago.

The research published Monday in Current Biology suggests that large dinosaurs made a significant contribution to the greenhouse effect back then. ...

Eric Fehrnstrom, an advisor to Mitt Romney, says the campaign was disappointed by the resignation of a spokesman.

David Frum says that, through six years of campaigning for the presidency, presumptive GOP nominee and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has allowed himself to be remade and redefined by his worst enemies.

Chris Lawrence and Nic Robertson describe the kind of bomb involved in a foiled plot to blow up a U.S.-bound jet.

LOS ANGELES — The chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Monday there is no timetable for restarting the sidelined San Onofre nuclear plant on the Southern California coast and a federal review of its troubled tubing will take whatever time is necessary to complete.

The statement from Chairman Gregory ...

Interior Secretary Kenneth L. Salazar on Monday cheered on the opening of the first large-scale solar power project on federal property, just three days after his department rolled out new regulations on oil and gas companies doing business on those very same lands.

The Enbridge Silver State North solar project ...

National security analyst Peter Bergen talks to CNN's Wolf Blitzer about a foiled plot to blow up a U.S.-bound jet.

U.S., Yemeni and other intelligence agencies broke up a plot to bomb a U.S. airliner around the anniversary of the raid that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, a U.S. counterrrorism official said Monday.

NEW YORK — The heirs of the man who helped develop the formula for Pepsi are suing the soda company over their right to share with the public documents detailing their father's invention.

The daughter and son of Richard Ritchie say PepsiCo Inc. is interfering with their ability to market ...

It's 2008 again in America.

Ethan A. Huff | Why are some of the most popular vaccines commonly administered to children demonstrably causing autism in animal primates?

Andy Worthington | Jose Rodriguez, the director of the CIA's National Clandestine Service until his retirement in 2007, defends the use of torture.

denver.cbslocal.com | D’Avonte Meadows, a first-grader at Sable Elementary School in Aurora, is accused of sexual harassment.